References for Teaching in the Field



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Incorporating GPS Technology with a Campus Walking Tour part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Daniel J. Weiss, James C. Walters
This independent assignment has groups of students take a questionnaire and a GPS unit on a geologic walking tour of the campus. Some of the questions have students learn to use the GPS by obtaining ...

Subject: Education
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Instructional Design:Use of Technology, Ways Of Learning:Active/Kinesthetic/Experiential

Effect of Field Activities on Student Learning part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Ernest L. Kern, John R. Carpenter
This article from the Journal of Geological Education presents a study that assessed the influence of field activities versus classroom-contained activities upon students in an earth science ...

Subject: Education:Assessment, Education
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field

Learning Geologic Time in the Field part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Robert C. Thomas
This article in the Journal of Geoscience Education describes a method used to teach the concept of geologic time to introductory geology students using an inquiry-based approach. Students work in ...

Subject: Education
Research on Learning: Geoscience Expertise:Geologic Time, Instructional Design:Inquiry-Based Learning, Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Active/Kinesthetic/Experiential

Fieldwork in Geography Teaching: a critical review of the literature and approaches part of SERC Print Resource Collection
M. Kent, D. Gilbertsone, and C. Hunt
This review of geography fieldwork pedagogy draws from various scientific literature mostly relating to the United Kingdom. It assesses the traditional conduct of geography fieldwork by discussing, ...

Subject: Geography, Education
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field, Affective Domain:Learning Environments

Countdown to a field excursion part of SERC Print Resource Collection
C. King
This is a detailed account of all the steps that need to be taken to prepare and execute a geology field excursion for a grammar school in Cheshire, England. The author asserts that since fieldwork ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology, Education
Research on Learning: Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field

Development and Validation of an Instrument for Assessing the Learning Environment of Outdoor Science Activities part of SERC Print Resource Collection
N. Orion, A. Hofstein, P. Tamir, and G.J. Gidding
This study was conducted to describe the development and validation of Science Outdoor Learning Environment Inventory (SOLEI), an instrument used to assess science learning environments on field ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology, Education:Assessment
Research on Learning: Instructional Design:Constructivism, Assessment:Meta-Analysis, Classroom Methods, Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field, Affective Domain:Learning Environments, Ways Of Learning:In the Field

Earth and Mind: How Geologists Think and Learn about the Earth part of SERC Print Resource Collection
C.A. Manduca, D.W. Mogk
What does it mean to be a geoscientist? What characterizes the expertise that geoscientists bring to understanding the Earth? How do students develop this expertise? This volume brings together ...

Subject: Education
Research on Learning: Geoscience Expertise:Complex Systems, Drawing Inferences, Spatial Intelligence, Assessment:Classroom Methods, Geoscience Expertise:Geologic Time, Cognitive Domain:Cognitive Development, Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Instructional Design

Handbook of College Science Teaching part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Joel J. Mintzes, William H. Leonard

Subject: Education
Research on Learning: Instructional Design:Use of Technology, Inquiry-Based Learning, Teaching in the Field, Instructional Design, Affective Domain:Learning Environments

Sense of Place and Place-Based Introductory Geoscience Teaching for American Indian and Alaska Native Undergraduates part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Steven Semken
A student's "sense of place" incorporates their affective as well as cognitive responses to physical places. Students with strong cultural bonds to homelands, many of ...

Subject: Geography:Human/Cultural, Education
Research on Learning: Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field, Interdisciplinary Education, Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Cognitive Domain:Knowledge Transfer, Affective Domain, Cultural Differences